1623 in science
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The year 1623 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Psychology
- Erotomania is first mentioned in a psychiatric treatise.[1]
[edit] Technology
- Wilhelm Schickard invents a mechanical calculating machine.[2]
[edit] Births
- June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)
- October 9 - Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit Sinologist and astronomer (d. 1688)
- probable date - Margaret Lucas, later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (d. 1673)
[edit] Deaths
- Michel Coignet, Flemish scientific instrument-maker (b. 1549)
[edit] References
- ^ Ferrand, Jacques. Maladie d'amour, ou Mélancolie érotique.
- ^ Marguin, Jean (1994). Histoire des instruments et machines à calculer: trois siècles de mécanique pensante 1642-1942. Paris: Hermann. p. 48. ISBN 978-2705661663.
